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j ntoout teaching boys other work than ouch Q3 carpentry etc,
« 1 iiid that Arabs were favoured in thio and no Shin boyB wore in the
ey try or engineering classes - which is not the case - they said
r!'Ctiie masters favoured Arabo in everything at school. They said thore
pl : bc n council to appoint the maotere, fix their pay and oettle
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,0# wnc to be taught. They complained that prevlouo young men oont to
• , it hnd all been Arabo - thio io true, I woo not here when the
ll'c wan made ~ nnd that Ql1 tllc clorko in Government officoo wero
•°*c 'fjiey admitted later that thio was a wholly untrue statement and
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. !vnt there wore more Arabo than Shias. They talked about Hgxxsiilinx
icuiture and aokod what the export had advioed. They themnolveo had
rl flboUt with him a lot. They said that Shaikh Abdulla did nothing
ut education though nominally the head of it all.
0 They finished up be 6aying that I always did juotico and all
sort, of thing so I said I hoard that at the moment some people were
„in- iuot tho opposite about mo, how did they explain it, Wy looked
ptupid and said that people in rny position always hnd a lot of
trier..
They did not mention Police and the other matters which are
inf discussed nor did they even hint at a Council. They asked me to
. vi the Bahama from oppression and all that sort of thing and 6Uggeote(
turning in five days. I said that was much too short' a time as the
rplointG they made would need to be examined and not in Ramadan,
raid that with regard to Courts H.H. hxx had been considering some
r.ns, with regard to Biladya it was up to them and the other Shia
r.bers to speak up at the meetings and put before the meglis any
Uer? over which they felt n/^rieved, I told them that already we were
sllivr with the Meglis Tnjara and had discharged several members who
Ver ?:puenr - this is 60 - and as for schools we would look into the
tier, which looks a6 if I was in for quite a busy time J We
rtsfl on quite good terms.
The impression I gained is that most of their complaints are
br-n reeling that the Arabs receive more consideration than the Shias
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; 'wo whose names 1 left out were Ha ji Tahir bln Mahsen and
Abdulin Abu Decb.

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